Workplace Bullying: Not a Manager’s Right?

SAGE Open

Devi Akella¹ 

关键词: workplace bullying;    labor process theory;    management control;    ethnography;   

DOI  :  10.1177/2158244016629394

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

Previous research on workplace bullying has narrowed its subjective boundaries by drawing heavily from psychological and social-psychological perspectives. However, workplace bullying can also be understood as an endemic feature of capitalist employment relationship. Labor process theory with its core characteristics of power, control, and exploitation of labor can effectively open and allow further exploration of workplace bullying issues. This article aims to make a contribution by examining workplace bullying from the historical and political contexts of society to conceptualize it as a control tool to sustain the capitalist exploitative regime with empirical support from an ethnographic case study within the health care sector.

【 授权许可】

CC BY